It’s not cowardice, it’s intentional. He wants a timeline where techno-lords with divine authority oversee their vassal states and nations are a thing of the past. Bending over for a fascist party is the fastest way to get there.

You can put videos in a text thread. I’m on a 31-person thread that has been active for about 15 years. I promise there’s no shortage of videos.

Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.

thanks, fixed.

Lol, but there are lots of applications for nondeterministic computing that are not LLMs. Some of the famous-y ones would be like Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), which is used in reinforcement learning (e.g., AlphaGo) to explore game trees probabilistically, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), where you use randomness to sample from complex distributions (e.g., Bayesian inference), and zero-knowledge proofs, where you use randomness to verify information without revealing it. You could probably get an LLM to make a longer list :)

This is it literally. (granted I’m sure there are other use cases, but you know they’re following those AI-dollars)

I’m still using that mouse, with a 9-pin to ps2 and a ps2 to usb

If by leftist you mean “believe in objective reality”

it’s just practice.

At least you tried.

I’m down. We should invite some of the solarpunk instance guys.

ex- google exec

Damn I’ve only tried 1 out of 6, no wonder I feel terrible.

A combination of strong state level incentives from China, Korea, and Taiwan, disinterest in super expensive R&D by GlobalFoundaries after they were spun out of AMD, and decades-long mismanagement at Intel.

Ok reading a little more the class has been certified but it hasn’t gone to trial, so there’s still a possibility of a closed-door settlement of some sort, though given the number of parties involved that seems unlikely. Maybe I’m just being optimistic. But if it goes to trial and makes it to judgement there will either have to be cases where using copyrighted materials to train AI (which seriously how is that not for generating derivative works) is found to be ok, or copyright will be held sacrosanct and the whole gen AI industry will have to pay… something. Punitive damages would make the industry cease to exist overnight, and I’d bet most publishers would prefer a check instead.

It has to set some precedent though. Either there are valid reasons to violate copyright are there aren’t.

Yeah for all his shortcomings Pat Gelsinger had the right plan for Intel. But the board wanted to see the numbers go up every quarter – long-term viability be damned – and he couldn’t do both that and push all of their advanced engineering directives, so something had to give (which in this case was Gelsinger himself).

Such a pity, too. Not long ago something like this would have ended even a powerful politician’s career. Dead. Full stop. But now, who can blame them? They’ve learned that there are no consequences for their hypocrisy and bad behavior, so why would they change?

We’re already “helping” in that climate change is significantly expanding their range. I removed 4 Lone Star ticks in a 1-week period earlier this summer on Long Island. There was a time when that kind wasn’t even around the area.

I’m all for eating less red meat, but I’d rather do it myself than rely on an deadly autoimmune response that might also kill me if I have a slice of buttered toast (or anything made from mammal proteins, for that matter), or carageenan, a seaweed-derived thickener.

Edit: also, fuck ticks in particular. They also can carry Lyme which is hard to diagnose and, for many, forever life-changing, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which can outright kill you.